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Show SANTO DOMINGO ON A FD011N6 FOUR YEARS OF MILITARr OCCU- PATION BY UNITED STATES PROVES BENEFICIAL. Public Debt Wiped Out, Order Re-stored, Re-stored, Finances Put In Good Shape and Public Sanitation Established , ., by United Statos. Washington. in four years of mill-tury mill-tury occupation the United States bus put the reimbllc orSnnlo' Domingo on Its,, feet, lestored order, ..luliifbllltuted the finances, oubllsljod public said-Hit said-Hit loli and begun the1 training of Dohi-mlnlcans Dohi-mlnlcans to carry on tho government when the American 'navy siuill he withdrawn. A report on conditions In tho Do-mlnlcaii Do-mlnlcaii icpublle by cliriiiuniulcr Hoy. nolils Hidden, medical corps. U. S. N., it member of the staff Of the military governor 'of Santo Domingo, obtained here October II, says: "At the tlne this temporary government govern-ment was Installed, the.ueeount of tho Dominican government was overdrawn by the sum of JH.'ii.'ll.:!.'!, ifiid payment of salaries, supply bills, etc., was greatly In arrears. The military gov-eminent gov-eminent has paid all the 1010 Indebtedness, Indebted-ness, and has since then met all the expenses of the government, Including large repaymentson tho bonded iloht and on August 1, 1020, hud $:t,'00,000 In the treasury. ty. "U Is expecled that tho&.'O.OOO.OOO bonded debrfttAe cQuntrg Inherited by the military goyeruiuJt!iiud due In lira, will !Miih!tIn-i!rVi, "lu addition to these financial reforms, re-forms, the mllllarj go eminent Is e-tending e-tending general education and sanitation, sanita-tion, creating emniiiunlcotloiiK,. joints, hills, teligiiipltlu-piigb"oiit th"o country coun-try and making 'manyport Improvements." |